I tracked down the bug causing guys to get hung up in the corner. I also locked the orientation in portrait mode. This was needed. A small orientation change would issue a pause and resume and cause a reload of assets.
The most exciting development last night was the discovery of deviceanywhere. They have a large suite of mobile phones that are all wired up for a kind of remote desktop control. So you can upload your application to a real device, not a simulator - and perform automated tests. Very exciting! They even seem to be reasonably priced. If you are a one man show like me, be sure to check out their discounted rates for Independent Developers.
I was able to upload BattleShock.apk to a Droid phone in their cloud and run the application - and it worked! Unfortunately I still hadn't solved the deployment of the sprites from the package to a dir on the /sdcard so there were no graphics. So I decided to implement the simplest thing first - I copied all the assets from the internal package to the /sdcard/BattleShock dir. This is by far the simplest to implement and debug. Here's some discussions that were very helpful.
I also took the time to reduce all the audio assets to 8 bit wav and 48kbs mp3. This makes for a much smaller apk and improves turnaround time when developing. Highly recommend it.
And so, after getting the assets unpacking correctly I deployed the new app to the cloud... where it crashed. Bummer. Now I want to know if I can remotely debug. Though I can't even debug locally, at least I get a callstack. I think I will have to resort to a good old local text log file - printf debugging ahoy!
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